Do Left Handed Boxers Have An Advantage. Left handed people learn to do things with their right hand due to them being in a right handed world so they have almost equal strength in both hands. Lastly not known to many but the most powerful punch in boxing is the left hook.
Lastly not known to many but the most powerful punch in boxing is the left hook. Fighting in a southpaw stance is believed to give the fighter a strategic advantage because of the tactical and cognitive difficulties of coping with a fighter who moves in a mirror reverse of the norm. Thus left handers have an advantage in fighting over right handers.
The study also found that left handed people are over represented in boxing.
Even in bowling left handers have an advantage because the lanes wear from so many right handed bowlers and the lefty doesn t get caught in that worn. The reason for this is that the left hook has the shortest distance to travel in a fight. Left handed people learn to do things with their right hand due to them being in a right handed world so they have almost equal strength in both hands. Experts say left handed fighter have a 54 per cent chance of winning a match.
